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'The Surfer' review: Nicolas Cage is plunged into toxic masculinity hell

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Summary
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59% Informative

The Surfer is a trippy psychological thriller directed by Lorcan Finnegan and written by Thomas Martin .

The film is equal parts tense survival thriller and coastal Western.

It takes place in a beachside parking lot in a fictional suburb of Luna Bay , Western Australia.

Nicolas Cage delivers a characteristically unhinged performance, though he's at the risk of being upstaged by Julian McMahon .

The Surfer is, at its core, a rumination on the harmful effects of hypermasculinity.

The film's local surfer gang, the Bay Boys , seems a subtle nod to the real surf gang from Sydney 's Maroubra Beach , the Bra Boys.

Finnegan and Martin use surfing culture and the terrifying Bay Boys to sharpen their focus on misogyny and superiority complexes.

The film will open in in cinemas early 2025 . Topics Film.

VR Score

44

Informative language

34

Neutral language

19

Article tone

semi-formal

Language

English

Language complexity

56

Offensive language

offensive

Hate speech

possibly hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

medium-lived

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